“You know what? I just don’t know if we have it in us,” he told Billboard this week. “We’ve played together and we have things to offer each other. But I think ultimately it’s like, why would we do it? The question comes up every time. Why would we do it? Well, they’ll pay us really great. Is that the reason to go do it or not? I don’t know.”

It also sounds like the latest round of reissues may be the last material from the band; Stinson said the best material is now out there, and it’s unlikely that any live album will see release.

Fans last year were treated to the second round of Rhino’s reissues, which supplemented each of the band’s major-label albums with a bevy of bonus tracks (including oddities and outtakes such as the ‘Mats short stab at the Pixies’ “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” tacked onto the tail end of Don’t Tell a Soul).

I’d love to see Stinson and Westerberg play together again. Hell, they don’t have to call it the Replacements and they both have enough songs under their belts that they wouldn’t have to touch any of the old Mats tunes.